Perish Quotes

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.